Cold weather is coming, which means it’s FROST POINTS SEASON. What are Frost Points? Frost Points is the FCRC’s cold weather challenge to motivate you for winter training! For each mile you run when the temp is below freezing, you earn points:Miles x (32F – Temp While You Ran) = Frost PointsExample: 5 miles, 22F5 x […]
Final Numbers! Thanks to all who participated in the 2023 Gfited Feet Program. This year we raised over $3,000. A huge thanks to the donors below, as well as those who chose to remain anonymous. Adrian Macdonald Green Events Lisa Arnold Aimee Chlebnik Heather Hutson Maddy Boyd Becca Gennings Jonathan Zeif Megan Straney, in […]
FCRC Saturday Run & Training Groups, all levels (Members & non-members welcome) **The first Saturday of the month is New Member Run** Date: Every Saturday Time: Meet at 7:55 am, leave a 8:00am (schedule from September-May), Meet @ 7:25am, leave @ 7:30 am (schedule fromJune-August) Location: Parking lot at Jessup Farm (1933 Jessup Dr, Fort Collins, CO 80525) […]
Lynn Stiff, MD, RD, MS and FCRC Board Member One of the most overlooked aspects of training is fueling. We wouldn’t expect a car to drive without gas, a fire to burn without wood or a lamp to light without electricity. But for some reason, we have come to believe that our bodies are capable […]
By AJ Chlebnik, Kate Schulte, and Lucien Meadows As the Indian Law Resource Center and the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center share, the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and relatives (MMIWR) is ongoing and devastating. In the US, four out of five Indigenous women (80%) have been victimized by violence. The vast majority […]
From May-December, when the Segment Showdown isn’t taking place, we will be doing the Segment Rundown. This is simply offering routes for you to explore in Northern Colorado. There will be two per month. We can’t do this on our own, so PLEASE send us ideas on what we can offer for you to explore. […]
FCRC sends out the Weekly Rundown newsletter, via email. But what happened before we relied on electronics? Newsletters were sent via (snail) mail. A kind member saved many years of the bi-monthly newsletter previously sent out by the FCRC. We have uploaded them to the network for you to check out. See what took place […]
It’s nearly impossible to enjoy the Horsetooth Half Marathon race course without getting a picturesque view of Horsetooth Rock, a landmark visible from most of Fort Collins. The story of how Horsetooth Rock got its name is a great example of how some of a community’s most enduring stories can be more complex than they […]
Watch an interview with Christian Groendyk about his life in sports, from elementary to middle to high school and what’s coming up starting this fall. https://youtu.be/l1EJOk1iWrQ
Our Running Buddies program was a great success with T&H and is now expanding! If you need a Running Buddy while doing any running — group runs, training runs, races, or anything else, please reach out. We’ll connect you/them with a Running Buddy so they are comfortable! Who might want a running buddy? An older […]
We are reaching out again to ask that you complete another short city survey pertaining to the former Hughes Stadium property. The survey will conclude this Friday, February 24th so please act as soon as possible. The Fort Collins Running Club Board of Directors and its partners are advocating for a low impact use of the Hughes property by creating […]
A Q&A with FCRC Member Harlan Grossman 1) Tell us a little about yourself and how you ended up in Fort Collins.I grew up on Long Island, NY and started running as a freshman in high school. I went to college in upstate NY, close to New England, and I started exploring different mountain ranges: […]
